Originally Posted By Helson
600 mSec is a long time for what we're talking about. I've not had that experience in any track or file I've tried. Any delay should be consistent with the time it takes to acquire the signal. That time should be the same. But, my experience has only been noticeable 5% of the time, and that was when I was looking for it.


It's easy to determine. Knowing the words that are omitted on playback, vary the Audacity stop marker so that on "play", Audacity plays back only those missing words. The acquisition time may be a lot shorter than that, but I'm not referring to that, but rather the fade-in time.